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It's really bizarre. With Hasbro's emphasis on video games, taken a video game designer like Ohlen from video games and into the theoretically less lucrative TTRPG space is really weird! Hasbro has several video game projects (especially BG4, give his work on BG) ... in what world would you not...

Have you been able to verify this statement? I noticed the wording is a bit ambiguous: "He is still going to be a creative consultant for the company and had been asked to "shift his creative focus" to tabletop RPGs." The use of had is strange. Does this mean he was asked to shift to RPGs and...

My second pick: Neon City Outlaws

Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition is my pick!

The emphasis of the set is clearly on pleasing fans of the set. There are tons of call-outs and nods that make it rewarding to fans of the show. For example, one of the adventures features underground tunnels and foes that are right out of season 2. Even the premise of a farmer complaining...

Should it be of use, I provided a video review of the set looking at its components here.

I appreciate the work done here and I get why you included the third party cases you did. It would be interesting to do an exhaustive inclusion of third-party work, including organized play. If you add the incredible number of pages from Living Greyhawk, Living Forgotten Realms, Ashes of Athas...

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I think the adventure is a strong upgrade to the original and you can run it perfectly well with PCs you made in any fashion. The adventure, like the original, is a sandbox. Each booklet has an initial section with helpful sidebars, but it's otherwise a great 5E version of KotB. The maps and...

From our interview with Justice, it doesn't sound as if there are any public plans (or had been any plans at launch) to do more with the Starter Set. Justice says that the team does react to what they hear. If in public places enough people are asking for something, then it's possible that they...

I'll argue that it's never in and of itself a bad omen for D&D to see other RPGs grow. 5E saw huge growth for other RPGs, and it's because 5E was such a fantastic edition of the game that pleased so many types of players... which in turn brought in new gamers and increased other games too. I'll...

This is really an awesome article, Echohawk. Thank you! I look forward to the upcoming articles.

It will vary by Patreon creator, and Patreon is constantly making changes which impact how any of us may run our own Patreon. Their data shows that introducing a "free" category can be a way for folks to follow the creator and this can mean many things: see that they post often/consistently, get...

Sorry for not responding sooner, folks! I was busy on a writing project and I'm catching up. Most probably have the set now, and we had our recording with the project lead, Justice Arman, here (or YouTube here). It's super fast. When we ran at PAX, we already set them up so all we had to do was...